We have just received official word from the Ecological Society of America (ESA) that our two 2011 “Photography for Ecologists” workshops have been approved. Our team (myself, Molly Mehling, Nathan Dappen, and Neil Ever Osborne) will be leading the two workshops at the 96th annual ESA meeting in Austin, TX in August. The first workshop, [...]

Albert Einstein will be remembered for many contributions before this one, but this quote has been resonating with me recently: “If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?” Einstein was probably being more self-deprecating than necessary – he knew what he was doing to a greater [...]

I have a confession to make. It’s been a WHILE since I’ve gone out with any serious intention of taking pictures. Until last weekend, in fact, the last time I took nature photos – literally – was a four-day trip through southwestern Australia with Nate Dappen, appended to the end of a professional meeting I [...]